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Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan

Overview

As per the 71st NSSO Survey on Education 2014, only 6% of rural households have a computer. This highlights that more than 15 crore rural households (@ 94% of 16.85 crore households) do not have computers and a significant number of these households are likely to be digitally illiterate. The Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA) being initiated under Digital India Programme would cover 6 crore households in rural areas to make them digitally literate.

Earlier, the Government had implemented the National Digital Literacy Mission or the Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (DISHA) or National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) to impart IT training to 52.5 lakh persons, including Anganwadi and ASHA workers and authorised ration dealers in all the States/UTs across the country so that the non-IT literate citizens are trained to become IT literate so as to enable them to actively and effectively participate in the democratic and developmental process and also enhance their livelihood.

Expected outcome

Digital Literacy is the ability of individuals and communities to understand and use digital technologies for meaningful actions within life situations. Digitally literate persons would be able to operate computers/digital access devices (like tablets, smart phones, etc.), send and receive emails, browse internet, access Government Services, search for information, undertaking cashless transactions, etc. and hence use IT to actively participate in the process of nation building.

MGDISHA is expected to be one of the largest digital literacy programmes in the world. Under the scheme, 25 lakh candidates will be trained in the FY 2016-17; 275 lakh in the FY 2017-18; and 300 lakh in the FY 2018-19. To ensure equitable geographical reach, each of the 250,000 Gram Panchayats would be expected to register an average of 200-300 candidates.

Implementation process

Eligibility

The Scheme is applicable only for rural areas of the country.

Eligible Household: A household is defined as a unit comprising of Head of family, spouse, children and parents. All such households where none of the family member is digitally literate will be considered as eligible household under the Scheme.

Entry criteria

The beneficiary should be Digitally Illiterate

Only one person per eligible household would be considered for training

Digitally illiterate school students from class 9th to 12th, provided facility of Computer/ICT Training is not available in their schools

Preference would be given to SC, ST, BPL, women, differently-abled persons and minorities

The identification of the beneficiaries would be carried out by CSC-SPV in active collaboration with DeGS, Gram Panchayats, and Block Development Officers. The list of such beneficiaries would be made available on the scheme portal.

The implementation of the Scheme would be carried out under the overall supervision of Ministry of Electronics and IT in active collaboration with States/UTs through their designated State Implementing Agencies, District e-Governance Society (DeGS), etc.

Training process

The duration of the training program is for 20 hours which has to be completed in a minimum of 10 days and maximum of 30 days.

Learning Outcomes / Competency Standards

Understand the basics (terminology, navigation and functionality) of digital devices.

Use digital devices for accessing, creating, managing and sharing information

Use the Internet to browse in an effective and responsible manner

Use technology to communicate effectively

Appreciate the role of digital technology in everyday life, in social life and at work

A training partner must be an organization registered in India, conducting business in the domain of education/ IT literacy for more than three years and having Permanent Income Tax Account Number (PAN) and audited statements of accounts for at least last three years.

The institution/organization should be registered under any act of law in India, e.g., in the case of a company it must be registered with the Registrar of Companies, in case of Society, it must be registered with the Registrar of Societies and so on and so forth.

The partner must have clearly defined objectives, well-documented processes and procedures covering the entire range of education/ IT literacy training.

Role of a Training Partner

A training partner shall be responsible to have or appoint the Training Centers in the identified Districts/ Blocks/ Gram Panchayats that would impart digital literacy training to the beneficiaries.

A training partner shall be responsible for ensuring that the training centers adhere to the PMGDISHA requirements.

A training partner shall be accountable for monitoring the overall working of the centers that fall under its purview.

A training partner shall be liable for accurate and timely reporting of the aforementioned work ascribed to the centers.

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I am from Northeast
Nagaland.

Indramani chaudhary
Nov 22, 2018 01:28 PM

I am from bihar, distt- west champaran, and i have observed that some people are doing this work but they are making fool to rural villagers. They are not providing any training, they are doing registration and also giving test by theirselves for only making money for their own benefit.

Mehraj bhat
Sep 28, 2018 08:36 PM

Im frm kashmir.. I want to open a new centre of PMGDISHA in my localty, as thre is not any existing centre almost in 50 villages... Please contact me at 96*******19

Jesse Hringngen
Apr 23, 2018 11:24 PM

What would be the benefits of having a PMGDISHA certificate??

M RAHAMAN
Feb 16, 2018 05:54 PM

Its obviously a good project,but some dishonest vle are continuing this project without giving training.Actually they are cheating with the rural people to make profit.